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Old 06-02-2009
date for two days or 3 days ago

i need a script that can tell me the date 2 days ago or 3 days ago.

please help
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Old 06-02-2009
# 3  
Old 06-02-2009
what have you tried till now??
give it a try if you can't do it get back here we will definately help you out..
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Old 06-02-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidyadhar85
what have you tried till now??
give it a try if you can't do it get back here we will definately help you out..

when i use datecalc like
datecalc - a 2009 05 31 - 2
i get 2009 5 29

but i want the results in the format
yyyymmdd
i.e 2009 05 29.
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Old 06-02-2009
As a workaround, instead of changing the datecalc script, you can pipe the output to awk:

Code:
awk '{printf("%s %02d %02d\n",$1,$2,$3)}'

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Old 06-02-2009
once you get it pass it to awk and get the desired o/p
Code:
echo "2009 5 24"|awk '{printf "%s %02s %02s",$1,$2,$3}'

# 7  
Old 06-02-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidyadhar85
once you get it pass it to awk and get the desired o/p
Code:
echo "2009 5 24"|awk '{printf "%s %02s %02s",$1,$2,$3}'

it worked perfectly thanks
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